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What is Arbitrum?
Arbitrum is an L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Arbitrum was founded by Offchain Labs and launched in 2021.How does Arbitrum work?
Arbitrum batches users' transactions and submits them to Ethereum, paying a share of the transaction fees to Ethereum validators (expense).Who governs Arbitrum?
ARB tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently run the only sequencer and take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Arbitrum’s investors include Polychain, Alameda Research, Coinbase Ventures, etc.Related posts
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A weekly data digest for the leading crypto investors and operators.The fundamentals of Arbitrum
In this week's research piece, we focus on the current state of Arbitrum's product, business model, financials, usage, competition, and more! Arbitrum is a L2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum. Arbitrum was founded by Offchain Labs and launched in 2021.The values in this graphic are examples and do not reflect actual values. Treat them as approximations.